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Although I don’t seem to have any early recordings of The Strange, I managed to locate these which were made by the last incarnation of the original line-up (Dave, Richard and myself with Graham White on drums) some time in the late 90′s. The demo was made at Knighton Heath Music Centre in Poole and [...]

Not so many tracks today – in fact I can only find two from this era! This particular phase coincided with me getting a regular DJ set doing chillout. I had the slightly naive opinion that I could mix live performance with DJ’ing (armed with a couple of synths and samplers as well as a [...]

When I finally moved out of bedsitter-land and stopped sleeping on other peoples couches, I got a small flat in Poole where I began to rebuild my life after so nearly destroying myself. Following the example of a number of people I had met in my wilderness years, my flat became a kind of open-house [...]

Here is the second Manitou album – the follow up to the well received “Looking for the Lost”. The album was never finished, much of this was played live in the studio as a “studio rough” and it’s a fairly basic desk mix. Having said that, I still think it sounds pretty good! It was [...]

The 4AM set is chilled Acid Jazz, heavy on the breaks and grooves but light on the changes! It was spawned from a Jazz set my friend Dave Carson was performing, which I helped him out with a couple of times. Taking recordings of live jams, then cutting them into loops and heavily processing the [...]